PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 3, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Accept the congratulations of Rhode Island upon the glorious consummation of General Grant's campaign in the capture of Richmond. I have ordered a salute of 100 guns throughout the State.

JAMES Y. SMITH,

Governor of Rhode Island.

NORWICH, CONN., April 3, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Accept my thanks and congratulations for the glorious news. We are feeling its beneficial influence here to-day.

WM. A. BUCKINGHAM,

Governor.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., April 3, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Your dispatch announcing the fall of Richmond and Petersburg and the rout of Lee's army has electrified our people. We are firing salutes over the restoration of the Union, and the hearts of our people are throbbing in unison with the reverberation of Grant's artillery. God bless Abraham Lincoln, E. M. Stanton, U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, Phil. Sheridan, and the soldiers of the Union!

R. J. OGLESBY,

Governor of Illinois.

MEDWAY, MASS., April 3, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Permit me at this little village to congratulate you most heartily on the glorious result. I ordered the capture of Richmond to be given out at every telegraph station in New England. Your dispatch have made more people happy to-day than ever were happy before. I sent your message for Mr. Beecher yesterday to him in church. He read it aloud, and the scene that ensued defies description. The women cried and the men cheered. The performance closed by the whole congregation singing "Our Country, 'tis of Thee!" I shall have to defer payment for Richmond until the next crop.

E. S. SNAFORD.

CITY POINT, VA., April 4, 1865-8 a.m.*

(Received 8.45 a.m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

General Weitzel telegraphs from Richmond that of railroad stock he found there 28 locomotives, 44 passenger and baggage cars, and 106

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*Probably written before midnight of April 3.

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